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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Another gripe about 7.0
Message-ID: <49688@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 20:52:28 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2454@njitgw.njit.edu> gaines@mars.njit.edu (Starman) writes:
>>Also, applications are encouraged to put their own help commands in the help
>>menu, rather than in the Apple menu.  (For example, the Finder adds a
>>"Finder Shortcuts" item, which lists shortcuts in the Finder.)
>
>Hmmm...am I to understand that applications can use that? No flames, but
>from using several System 7 apps, it seemes as if the Finder was the
>only app using it! I guess I could see a help menu for applications,
>it's just that it didn't look that way....from where I was sitting :)
>

  As Larry said, 7.0-friendly/studly/compliant/whatever-term-it-is-we're-using-
these-days applications are allowed to put their own help items under the
balloon menu.  There are even calls in the Help Manager that will tell the
application how many items are in the menu already, so it doesn't need to
rely on it's items being in a fixed place.  This is incredibly handy in case
we ever decide to put more items in there.
  Of course, marketing dictates that you don't want to have two different
versions of the same product for two different versions of the operating system.
I'm guessing that most companies will try to have one version of their product
that can run under both 6.0 and 7.0, and since there's no help menu under 6.0,
apps will probably put their help items somewhere else.

  -- Dean Yu
     Negative Ethnic Role Model, Blue Meanie, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     My opinions and so on and so forth...